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I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

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tattoojunkie
Feb 15 2005
02:01 pm

if we’re still talking about bright eyes then i think you’re right. mr. oberst seems to possess and inconsistent hopelessness. i think you are right with what you point out about where he finds meaning in life. in this way i suppose he is something of an existentialist but maybe that is categorizing him a bit too much. maybe part of his goal is simply to refuse to be categorized.

if we are talking about humanity in general i think people can be without hope. however, i suppose there are varying levels of hopelessness which then begs the question what does it look like to be truly hopeless?